Charles John Huffman Dickens was born on the 7th December 1812 in Portsmouth and died on the 9th December 1870. He was the second of eight children to his parents John and Elizabeth Dickens, his father worked in the Navy Pay-office however the family finances got worse and the money was tight Charles had to work in a factory for 11 hours a day to try and help keep the family healthy. John was then sent to Marshalsea prison in 1824 which then made Charles the “man of the house”. After 4 years in the factory he then started work with solicitors in 1827 when he was 15, in 1831 he then got into the world of journalism, he was passionate for writing he also worked for local papers and then started his own work. Due to the lack of support and education from his parents he was determined to follow his dream to …show more content…
After a break in American he came back to Britain and published more novels including Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and an all time favourite A Christmas Carol. Dickens’s Christmas Carol came out in 1843 and was based in the Victorian era, around the idea of not making ghosts scary; he announced that this Ghostly book “shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me”. In my opinion this quote means that he didn’t want anyone to feel tense or a feel in a situation that was thought to be scary, Charles Dickens also said “may it haunt their houses pleasantly” therefore if people were feeling anxious about the thought of a ghost then he is reassuring them there isn’t any bad spirits for his book. He visited the working class citizens and realised how their Christmas was like and how they dealt with the money problems that his family got into therefore writing a basic story line along with the main character Ebenezer